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Does Your Startup Need A Technical Co-Founder?

ReadWriteStart

But when it comes to core technical skills, more and more entrepreneurs are opting to partner with technical co-founders rather than hiring someone for an in-house position. I really believe that what’s most important for a founder is the ability to have a vision for the company, make sales and hire well. Laura Roeder , LKR.

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Does Your Startup Need A Technical Co-Founder?

ReadWriteStart

But when it comes to core technical skills, more and more entrepreneurs are opting to partner with technical co-founders rather than hiring someone for an in-house position. You Need To Know Tech Basics I really believe that what’s most important for a founder is the ability to have a vision for the company, make sales and hire well.

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Finding a Technical Cofounder

bizthoughts.mikelee.org

BizThoughts Thoughts about business, technology, the web & entrepreneurship About Booklist Contact Nov 15 2011 Finding a Technical Cofounder By Mike Lee Categories: Entrepreneurship , Leadership Since I have a technical background, I get about one offer a month to join some engineering team, or to be a technical cofounder.

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The Trouble With Non-tech Cofounders | TechCrunch

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The Trouble With Non-tech Cofounders. This is a guest post by Scott Allison, CEO and founder of Teamly.com. I want to reflect on my experience as a non-technical founder and reassess my original decision – almost two years ago – to stick to what I’m good at, and not waste time learning to code. guest author.

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Our areas of interest in healthcare

Version One Ventures

Interest 1: The next generation of patient social networks. I’m excited about the rise of digital therapeutics: evidence-based therapeutic interventions driven by high quality software programs to prevent, manage, or treat a medical disorder or disease. . Drugs and surgery are expensive and can do more harm than good.

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Top 29 Startup Posts May 2010

SoCal CTO

But founders need to know how to ask for their advice and when to ignore it. Berkeley Boalt Law School and runs their entrepreneurship program. Startup Insights From Paul English, Co-Founder of Kayak - OnStartups , May 10, 2010 I’m just wrapping up several weeks of attending conferences across both coasts. Stay Tuned.

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Holiday Reading: 5 of This Year's Best Books for Startups

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Do More Faster: TechStars Lessons to Accelerate Your Startup is the recent book by TechStars co-founder David Cohen and Brad Feld. The book aims to share some of the insights gleaned from those who've participated in the TechStars accelerator program, and many of the chapters were contributed by TechStars' mentors and entrepreneurs.